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How do I make a VCL Reservation?

Submitted by fapeeler on Tue, 07/15/2008 - 13:45
  1. Click the 'Make a Reservation' or 'New Reservation' link.
  2. If you are not already authenicated, you will be presented with a login screen. Select your affiliation and proceed to login.
  3. Once authenicated and based on you level of access, you will be presented with a menu of VCL application environments to choose from.
  4. Select the VCL application environment you would like to use.
  5. Select the time you would like to start the reservation, for an immediate session select 'Now'.
  6. Select the duration of your reservation, by default the initial duration is 1 hour. Once the reservation is active it can be extended to a total of 6 hours. Under special cases longer durations are available.
  7. Submit your request.
  8. You will be taken to the Current reservations page. Here you will see a pending signal while the assigned compute node is being prepared. Click on the 'Pending...' link for details of the processing.
  9. Once ready, a 'Connect' button will appear. Depending on the environment, it can take anywhere from 1 to 20 minutes for the request to be ready.
  10. After hitting the Connect button, you we see the details of your requested environment. The details can include the remote IP address, a single one-time password (depending on the environment) and information on how to connect to the remote computer running the application environment you selected.  Also note that the details regarding the connect infomation will change for each reservation you make.
  11. Connect to the remote machine.